You Got Called a Cockroach.
At Least Know Where Your Passport Is.

On May 15, 2026, India's Chief Justice called unemployed youth "cockroaches" and "parasites." The next morning, former AAP communications strategist Abhijeet Dipke woke up and thought: fine, let's run with it.

He launched the Cockroach Janta Party. Within 78 hours it had 3 million Instagram followers. Within days: 20 million. The government, apparently not great at irony, blocked their X account and took down their website on May 23rd — thus proving the party's entire point in one move.

This blog is about home organization. But we'd be doing you a disservice if we didn't connect these two things, because they are deeply, embarrassingly connected. You are — statistically speaking — a person who cannot find their passport on short notice. And if you're going to call yourself a cockroach, you should at least have their legendary organizational instincts.

What just happened

For those catching up: the Chief Justice's remarks about unemployed youth went viral for the wrong reasons. Instead of quietly moving on, the internet did what the internet does — it adopted the insult and made it a brand.

The Cockroach Janta Party's membership criteria is a work of art: you must be unemployed (or underemployed), lazy, spend at least 11 hours per day online, and demonstrate professional ranting ability. Over 350,000 people signed up within days. The five-point manifesto covers real issues — judicial accountability, election integrity, media monopolies — wrapped in the aesthetic of total chaos.

The government's response was to block the party's accounts and shut down its website, which is the political equivalent of telling someone their meme isn't funny. It just made the meme funnier.

Cockroaches: organizational legends

Here's something nobody mentions when calling you a cockroach as an insult: cockroaches have survived for 300 million years. Every mass extinction. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Nuclear test sites. They are, objectively, the most successful species on the planet at knowing their territory and adapting to it.

A cockroach knows exactly where the food is. It knows the layout of your kitchen better than you do. It has memorized every crack, every shelf edge, every drawer gap. It does not spend 20 minutes looking for the charger.

You, on the other hand, bought the same phone charger four times because you couldn't find the one you already own. You "safely stored" your passport before your last trip and then spent 45 minutes dismantling your bedroom. You have a drawer that is simply called "the junk drawer" and contains, among other things, a padlock with no key and batteries of unknown charge.

The cockroach would be disappointed.

The 5-point Home Manifesto

The CJP's real manifesto covers judicial accountability, election integrity, and media monopolies. These are important. But we would like to propose a parallel manifesto — equally urgent — for the state of your home. We present it in the same spirit: righteous, slightly unhinged, and completely correct.

1. Every document shall have a known location

Passports, tax records, insurance papers, property documents. These shall not live in "somewhere safe." They shall live in a specific, logged, findable place. Ignorance of document location is no longer acceptable in an era where we can track food deliveries in real time but lose our own birth certificate for three years.

2. "Somewhere safe" shall be abolished as a storage strategy

"Somewhere safe" is where things go to die. It is a graveyard of intentions. Every item that enters "somewhere safe" shall instead be logged with a photo and actual physical location within 24 hours of storage. This is non-negotiable.

3. Seasonal bins shall be inventoried before sealing

The practice of filling a bin, taping it shut, and pushing it to the back of a closet — only to open it six months later with zero memory of its contents — shall be reformed. A simple note. A photo. Thirty seconds. The people demand to know what's in the bin.

4. The charger shall have a fixed home

There shall be one charger per device. It shall live in one place. When it is moved, the record shall be updated. The era of buying replacement chargers because the original is "definitely in this apartment somewhere" is over. We have the technology. We have the app. We are choosing chaos, and it must stop.

5. The people demand to know where their stuff is

This is the foundation. When the system fails you — when your passport is needed, when your warranty card is urgently required, when you have a 6am flight and can't find anything — you should not be defeated by your own apartment. Organize your belongings. Log them. The cockroach knows its territory. So should you.

Your passport, specifically

Let's talk about the passport. You have one. You know it's in the apartment. You think it's in the blue folder. Or the filing cabinet. Or maybe the small drawer in the desk — the one that also has three different-sized Allen keys and a USB cable that doesn't connect to anything you currently own.

The last time you used it, you put it back "somewhere safe." You have not thought about it since. This is a completely normal way to live, and it will end in a specific kind of panic: the 10pm pre-flight passport hunt, conducted with the energy of someone who has already missed two flights in their life and cannot afford a third.

Here's what you do instead: open Once Kept, photograph your passport, type "bottom drawer of the office desk" (or wherever it actually lives), and never think about this again. When you need it, you open the app, search passport, and it tells you exactly where it is. Ten seconds. Done. The panic never comes.

The fix

The Cockroach Janta Party's core argument — dressed in memes and sarcasm — is that the system should be accountable, transparent, and findable when you need it. We are making the same argument about your belongings.

You don't need to overhaul your entire home. You need a record that doesn't forget. A photo, a location, a note. Once Kept is built for exactly this: photograph your belongings, tag where they live, and search when you need them. No more "I know it's here somewhere." No more "I put it somewhere safe." No more passport panic at 10pm.

The cockroach knows where everything is. It has known for 300 million years. You have a smartphone and an app. There is no excuse.